HLnovel Chapter 283: 4 uproars
Chapter 283: 4 uproars
The guests could not help but whisper to each other, and there was an uproar.
"How can this woman be a distinguished guest?"
"That's right. It's fine that the Grand Master didn't follow the rules of etiquette in the past, but he actually let women be the guests of honor during the coming-of-age ceremony. That's totally against the will of Heaven!"
"Isn't it? A woman with long hair and little knowledge, how can she be a guest of honor?"
"This is ridiculous, ridiculous!"
"Ah--"
A cold voice reached everyone's ears, and everyone shuddered. The accusations that were originally boiling in the air disappeared in an instant.
Feng Jiuqing slowly appeared in front of everyone, still wearing the hideous mask and speaking in a cold voice, looking a bit murderous.
"Why can't women be guests of honor? Didn't you just say it very straightforwardly? Come on, I want to hear what you think."
"The Grand Master is an important minister of the country. The guest of honor for the Grand Master's coming-of-age ceremony must be highly respected—"
Feng Jiuqing looked at the man coldly: "You mean, the old lady of the Duke of Zhenguo Mansion in Dayue is not highly respected?"
"I, I didn't mean that, but she is a woman, she should take care of her husband and children, and manage the backyard. How can she do men's things!"
"Right, that is it!"
"Oh, women should be confined to the backyard to take care of their husbands and children. Where did this perverted logic come from? Why didn't you say that women should take care of their husbands and children in the backyard during the war? When Old Lady Shen went to the battlefield, you were still eating, drinking and having fun at home."
"Minister Zhao, you are the Minister of Rites, but you have been staying in the capital and have never been on the battlefield. If it weren't for people like Old Lady Shen guarding Daiyue, how could you live a peaceful life? In this case, what right do you have to say such a shocking and perverted idea that women should stay in the backyard?"
Zhao Shangshu blushed and said, "It has been like this since ancient times. The husband is the leader of the wife. The wife only needs to take good care of her husband and give birth to children to continue the family line. That's what they should do!"
"May I ask Minister Zhao, what are etiquette and laws?" Feng Jiuqing's voice became even colder.
Minister Zhao felt inexplicably cold, but he still stiffened his neck and said, "Etiquette is the ancestral law left by the sages!"
"Oh~ Then may I ask if the sage is a man or a woman?"
"Of course the sages are men!" Minister Zhao said this with full confidence.
"Since the ancient sages were men, the etiquette and laws written by men must protect men. This shows that the etiquette and laws of the ancient sages have flaws. Since there are flaws, they must be corrected. Since they need to be corrected, how can we trust them completely?"
Minister Zhao gritted his teeth and said, "The virtues of the ancient sages are all praised by people, so the etiquette and laws they wrote must be flawless!"
"Really? If I remember correctly, the Dai Viet Code has been revised more than ten times in the past five years. Are your rituals more accurate than the Dai Viet Code? Why are the sages called sages? Of course, it's because they have passed away. After they pass away, they can no longer revise the rituals. However, the times are constantly changing. After a dynasty changes, the laws need to be rewritten. Don't the rituals need to be rewritten?"
"Or is it that Minister Zhao is ignorant and stubborn, thinking that the laws of the previous dynasty can be directly applied to Dai Viet?"
The royal family of the previous dynasty had the surname Zhao, so it was stipulated that people with the surname Zhao were superior. However, given the current royal family's faith in Mo, Shangshu Zhao certainly did not dare to agree to this.
"You, you are making excuses!" Minister Zhao's face turned red with anger.
Feng Jiuqing chuckled: "If you can't win the argument, then you can say that I am making up stories. Then can I also say that Minister Zhao is at a loss for words?"
"You! You!" Minister Zhao fainted.
"Someone, come here! Send Minister Zhao back home!" Feng Jiuqing glanced at the people with different expressions and said, "Does anyone else have any objections?"
"Even if the etiquette is flawed, throughout history, the guests of honor have always been men. The Grand Tutor is risking the world's disapproval by allowing a woman to be the guest of honor. I'm afraid he has ulterior motives!" The Deputy Minister of Rites said angrily.
"Oh, according to you, if something has never existed before, it shouldn't exist? That's unreasonable. Then I would like to ask the Minister of Rites, sweet potatoes were only introduced to Dai Viet four years ago, but they have helped alleviate many disasters since then. According to the Minister, Dai Viet shouldn't grow sweet potatoes, and the right thing to do is to let thousands of people starve to death?"
Feng Jiuqing sneered: "Come here, arrest this traitor who harmed the people of Great Yue! He dared to force thousands of people of Great Yue to starve to death. This is so evil that he deserves no punishment! Send this man to the imperial prison and select a day for trial!"
Immediately, soldiers stepped out and grabbed the official, who struggled madly, "It's unfair! It's a huge injustice!"
"Isn't the Grand Tutor going too far? The Deputy Minister of Rites was just saying something fair and had no intention of harming the people!" The Chief Justice of the Dali Temple stepped forward to refute.
"Fairness? Oh, you are the Minister of Justice, in charge of the prison. Let me ask you, what you call fairness is that you are an official in the daytime, and when you go home, you step on your wives and concubines to serve you. You are fair, but what about the women in the world? Where is their fairness?"
"At home, obey your father; after marriage, obey your husband; after your husband dies, obey your son. Apart from having two ounces of meat under your crotch, do you have any other advantages over them? You boast that women's virtue lies in their lack of talent, deprive them of the opportunity to enter school, and then say that they have long hair but little knowledge!"
"You have said everything good and bad. There are no silk skirts in the academy, and no men in the abandoned baby tower. You have woven many rules and regulations to restrain women, and then you turn around and call women lowly. You are so shameless!"
"After ten months of pregnancy, the world was born under women's skirts, but they are not allowed to let their skirts fly. What kind of bullshit is this! Where is the justice? You were born from women's flesh and blood, but you sucked them dry and even complained about their remaining bones burning your feet!"
"Where is justice at this time? Excuse me, Lord Justice, you were not born of a woman, but jumped out of a stone?"
The Dali Temple official's face flushed, unable to speak. Feng Jiuqing continued, "There is no precedent, so I will set it! Old Lady Shen has made great military achievements, and is a first-class imperial edict with high moral integrity. She is worthy of being Feng Jiuqing's grand guest!"
"If you have any opinions, you can go back and ask your mother if she was born lowly and gave birth to a bunch of bastards!"
"Women are also human beings. Their brilliance has been taken away in the long river of time, but they are the origin of life and are born with brilliance!"
"I will not force you to stay. If you do not want to attend my coming-of-age ceremony, just leave! But if I hear that a woman is unworthy, don't blame me for being ruthless!"